3-SocialStudies-November

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Grade: 3rd

Month: November

Main Concept

Places and Regions:
The Location of World Communites



Guiding Questions

  • How are maps and globes used to locate places around the world?
  • How do geographic characteristics define a world region?
  • What's the difference between a map and a globe?



Theme/Content Skills

  • World communities can be located on maps and globes (latitude and longitude)
  • The spatial relationships of world communities can be described by directions, location, distance and scale.
  • Regions represent areas of Earth's surface with unifying geographic characteristics.
  • World communities and Earth's continents and oceans can be located in relation to each other and to principal parallels and meridians.
  • Geographic representations such as aerial photographs and satellite-procluded images can be used to locate world communities.



Key Terms


latitude
longitude
Prime Meridian
Tropic of Capricorn
Tropic of Cancer
equator


Holidays

Thanksgiving
Election Day


Student Outcomes

  • Students will locate various places on maps and globes.
  • Students will locate places on maps using latitude and longitude.
  • Students will locate their community (new York City) on a New York State map, national map, and globe.
  • Students will label the equator, poles, and hemispheres on a simple outline map of the world.




Assessment/Project


Make a world map puzzle
Make a globe:
-Cover balloons with paper-mache. Then have students trace the continents from maps and draw them onto the balloon globe. Use yarn for th equator.



Resources for Students

All About Maps by Catherine Chambers
Somewhere in the World Right Now by Stacey Schuett
Picture Reference Atlas by Andrew Solway



Resources for Teachers


Google Earth
Atlases
World Puzzles
Globes
Map Rugs
Maps: NYS maps, USA maps, Local maps



Field Trip Suggestions